Ostr. London, British Library 12144 + 12150

Ancient Provenance Site	Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	purchase Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Chester, Greville John Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	purchase
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	Chester, Greville John Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution)	Krall, Jakob Certainty: high

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	damaged at the surface
Script, Primary	Greek
Language, Primary	Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting	documentary, hand of Sarapion boethos
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7
Quantity of Columns	1

Modern Title	Receipt for survey tax on palm groves (γεωμετρίας φοινικῶνος)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Sarapion scribe 1
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	receipt of Arrius Publianus, supervisor (epiteretes) of the Sacred Gate of Syene, through the assistant Sarapion, for geometria phoinikonon of year 15 of Hadrian, paid by Bienchis, son of Onnophris, the prophetes, in year 16 of Hadrian.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	corr. date year 16, tax year 15. l. 3 name: Petorzmethis ho kai Pl(oups?),l. 4 name P(eteurios), l. 5 apo = ono(matos), l. 6 Bien(chios). l. 7 Tybi 3. (not in ed.)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	unknown

Transcription

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1	Ἄριος Πουπλιανὸς καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ ἐπιτη-
2	ρηταὶ ἱερᾶς πύλ(ης) Σοήνης διὰ Σαραπίωνος βοηθοῦ.
3	διέγρ(αψεν) Πετορζμῆθις ὁ καὶ Πλ ̣ ̣ ̣ ¹ed. ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣; perhaps Πλο̣ύ̣ψ̣?
4	Π ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ²ed. τιος ὑπὲρ γεομετρίας ³ l. γεω(μετρίας) φοινικῶνος τοῦ ιε (ἔτους)
5	Ἁδριανοῦ Καίσαρος τοῦ κυρίου ό̣ν̣όματος ⁴ed. απο
6	Βιήνχ̣ι̣ο̣ς̣ ⁵ed. διαν ̣ ̣ ̣ Ὀννώφριος προφήτου
7	(δραχμὰς) ̣ (ἔτους) ις Ἁδριανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου
8	Τυβ̣ι γ̅ ⁶om. ed.

¹ ed. ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣; perhaps Πλο̣ύ̣ψ̣?
² ed. τιος
³ l. γεω(μετρίας)
⁴ ed. απο
⁵ ed. διαν ̣ ̣ ̣
⁶ om. ed.

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1	Arrius Publianus and his associate supervisors
2	of the Sacred Gate of Syene through Sarapion, assistant.
3	Thus has paid Petorzmethis alias Pl(oups?),
4	son of P---, for the survey tax on palm groves of the 15th year
5	of Hadrian Caesar the lord, on the account of
6	Bienchis, son of Onnophris, the prophetes.
7	drachmas ?. Year 16 of Hadrian the lord,
8	Tybi 3.

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Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
13010	man	Arrius Publianus epiteretes	Areios Pouplianos	Greek, Ancient

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Hadrian	16	Tybi	03	131 December 30 CE	date in text, date corrected.;

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DatasetID	310183
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	76728
Papyri.info	ddbdp/o.wilck;;157
Author	Ruth Duttenhöfer
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310183 (= Ostr. London, British Library 12144 + 12150), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer .